She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy vocational higher education class (北京电影学院高职班), majoring in performance arts.
[2] In 2006, Zhang won the champion of Looking for Zi Ling (寻找紫菱), a Hunan Television talent show.
[6] In 2009, Zhang co-starred with Ming Dao in the television series Smile in My Heart and won the Best Popularity Award at the Entertainment Star List.
[9] She also acted in the shenmo television series Ghost Catcher - Legend of Beauty and modern drama From Love.
[16] In 2013, Zhang starred as Wu Susu in the historical dramaThe Patriot Yue Fei, alongside Huang Xiaoming.
The same year, she was cast in the adaptation of Jin Yong's wuxia novel Ode to Gallantry as the female lead Ding Dang.